Religion and politics in comparative perspective : revival of religious fundamentalism in East and West / edited by Bronislaw Misztal and Anson Shupe.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1992.Description: xii, 223 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 027594218X (alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 270.825 20 M691r
LOC classification:
  • BT82.2 .R44 1992
Contents:
Making sense of the global revival of fundamentalism / Bronislaw Misztal and Anson Shupe -- Fundamentalism in America revisited : the fading of modernity as a source of symbolic capital / John H. Simpson -- The accommodation and deradicalization of innovative religious movements / Anson Shupe -- The vanishing point : the religious components of peasant politics of protest in Poland, 1970-1980 / Krzysztof Gorlach -- Religious revival or political substitution : Polish Roman Catholic movements after World War II / Janusz L. Mucha and Maciej K. Zaba -- Religious nationalism : six propositions from Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union / Hank Johnston -- Reasons for the growing popularity of Christian reconstructionism : the determination to attain dominion / Bruce Barron and Anson Shupe -- Scientific creationism and the politics of lifestyle concern in the United States / Raymond A. Eve and Francis B. Harrold -- Explaining Protestant fundamentalism in Central America / Michael Dodson -- Advocating nonviolent direct action in Latin America : the antecedents and emergence of SERPAJ / Ronald Pagnucco and John D. McCarthy -- Radical religious movements : a global perspective / Anthony B. van Fossen -- The conflict between "denominational state" and "state of law" / Bronislaw Misztal -- Movementization of social change / Slawomir Jan Magala.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-212) and index.

Making sense of the global revival of fundamentalism / Bronislaw Misztal and Anson Shupe -- Fundamentalism in America revisited : the fading of modernity as a source of symbolic capital / John H. Simpson -- The accommodation and deradicalization of innovative religious movements / Anson Shupe -- The vanishing point : the religious components of peasant politics of protest in Poland, 1970-1980 / Krzysztof Gorlach -- Religious revival or political substitution : Polish Roman Catholic movements after World War II / Janusz L. Mucha and Maciej K. Zaba -- Religious nationalism : six propositions from Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union / Hank Johnston -- Reasons for the growing popularity of Christian reconstructionism : the determination to attain dominion / Bruce Barron and Anson Shupe -- Scientific creationism and the politics of lifestyle concern in the United States / Raymond A. Eve and Francis B. Harrold -- Explaining Protestant fundamentalism in Central America / Michael Dodson -- Advocating nonviolent direct action in Latin America : the antecedents and emergence of SERPAJ / Ronald Pagnucco and John D. McCarthy -- Radical religious movements : a global perspective / Anthony B. van Fossen -- The conflict between "denominational state" and "state of law" / Bronislaw Misztal -- Movementization of social change / Slawomir Jan Magala.

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